Vocabulary:
Africa
Africa
- adinkra
- age-set/age-grade rituals
- amber
- amulets
- animists
- batakari
- calabash
- cicatrix/cicatrixation
- cloth: plain, trade, and country (strip)
- cowrie shells
- ear plugs
- fetish
- grigri
- indigo
- ivory
- kente cloth
- leppi cloth/lappa cloth
- lip plugs
- Maria Therese Dollar
- millet
- nsaduaso
- ochre
- scarification/cicatrization
- trade cloth/yard goods
- trade-wind beads/pound beads/trade beads
Dogon
- Amma
- boubou/gandoma
- caftan
- Douge
- Hogon
- Nommo
- soothsayer
- spindle whorls
Kirdi
- ear plugs
- ear sticks
- ham pilu
- pikuran/cache-sex jewelry
- shaffa (Kapsiki)
Mangbetu
- nembongo
- colobus monkey
- raffia
- elongated cranium
Kuba
- cut-pile embroidery
- raffia textiles
- Raphia vinifera
- wraparound skirt
Asante
- Ananse
- benkum benfra
- agrey
- batakari
- bodom
- W.E.B. Du Bois
- kente cloth
- Kwame Nkrumah
- lost wax casting
- nfre
- nsaduaso
Maasai
- Age-set:
- Almal Lengipaata
- Emorata
- Eunoto
- Olngesherr
- ear flaps
- elderhood
- enkuraru
- engilaa alamal
- errap
- olawaru
- shroud of circumcision
- shuka
- surutia/loosurutia
- warriorhood
Dinka
- Monyjang
- Djur
- namesake calf
Fulani/Wodaabe
- barbar (babbar, baba) riga
- bororo
- bororo'en
- bou-bou
- calabash
- Geerewol
- haik
- jabo
- kohl
- kwottenai kanye
- liagi
- plaque
- silkin
- zebu
Tuareg
- assrou n'swoul
- Cure Salee
- elkiss
- ettouben
- gandoma
- khomissar pendants
- liagi
- meharis
- tagelmoust (tagulmust)
- tcherot
- tsabit
Berbers
- aquilous
- champleve
See: http://www.ganoksin.com/borisat/nenam/ferric-chloride-champleve.htm (viewed 2-17-2009)
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cloisonne
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has examples.
- fibula
- khamsa
- mendhi (henna)
The Horn
- aruse
- Beja
- burga
- burnoose
- Mursi
- Oromo
- Rashaida